Am 30.09.2016 um 17:43 schrieb Shawn Rutledge: > Back in Nokia times it was said that we shouldn't use semicolons, > because it would speed up the parsing [...]
As someone who has written countless parsers, I *highly* doubt that this is actually true. Indenting with tabs was also believed to be *much* slower than indenting with spaces (which makes absolutely no sense), and that measurement result turned out to be caused by a bug in firebird. I bet this is also just an urban legend. Someone probably thought "hey - one less character to read - must be faster to load", but as André pointed out, the error recovery will most likely cost more than what you save. Unless if the behavior is baked into the LR(1) state-graph maybe. Also I don't think it is good style to write code that doesn't conform to the actual language, just because *most* parsers correctly *guess* what you meant *most* of the time (except in those pathological cases...). I think that you should *always* tell parsers *precisely* what you mean and don't rely on it's guessing ability. For reference: The Mariner 1 crash (which cost $80 million) was supposedly caused by an error that could have been caught by static analysis at compile time, but was just "guessed away" wrongly. Anyhow, I believe that we have spent more time on this debate than will ever be saved by omitting semicolons. Viktor -- Viktor Engelmann Software Engineer The Qt Company GmbH Rudower Chaussee 13 D-12489 Berlin [email protected] +49 151 26784521 http://qt.io Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B <http://qt.io> <http://www.facebook.com/Qt> <http://www.twitter.com/qtproject> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-qt-company/> <https://plus.google.com/104580575722059274792> <https://www.youtube.com/QtStudios> Qt World Summit 2016 <http://qtworldsummit.com/> Qt World Summit 2016 | Pier 27, San Francisco, CA Experience Exponential Potential on October 18-20 www.qtworldsummit.com <http://www.qtworldsummit.com>
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